something more gentle than the distich just quoted.

"No stranger, sir, though born in foreign climes.
On DORSET Downs, when Milton's page,
With Sin and Death provoked thy rage,
Thy rage provoked who soothed with GENTLE rhymes?"

By "Dorset Downs" he probably meant Mr. Dodington's seat. In Pitt's
Poems is "An Epistle to Dr. Edward Young, at Eastbury, in
Dorsetshire, on the Review at Sarum, 1722."

"While with your Dodington retired you sit,
Charmed with his flowing Burgundy and wit," etc.

Thomson, in his Autumn, addressing Mr. Dodington calls his seat the
seat of the Muses,

"Where, in the secret bower and winding walk,
For virtuous Young and thee they twine the bay."

The praises Thomson bestows but a few lines before on Philips, the
second

"Who nobly durst, in rhyme-unfettered verse,
With British freedom sing the British song,"

added to Thomson's example and success, might perhaps induce Young,
as we shall see presently, to write his great work without rhyme.

In 1734 he published "The Foreign Address, or the best Argument for